asked on 7/22/2008

Server 2000 domain controller issues after adding a 2003 server

Long ago I installed a windows 2000 Domain controller , several years later I installed a windows 2003 server as a domain controller, I now want to shut off the windows 2000 domian controller, while attemting this i am finding that the clients are not authenticating to the 2003 domain controller.

can anyone help me with this, is there something i might have missed?

Also i did open AD users and computers on the 2003 server after i shut down the 2000 server and it was empty.

is this possibly only a replication issue?

Microsoft Server OS Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Legacy OS

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Darius Ghassem

7/22/2008

Darius Ghassem

7/22/2008

Did you do the required steps to add the Windows 2003 Server as a domain controller? You need to move the FSMO roles over to the 2003 server. You need to make sure that the 2003 DNS points to itself.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23271777/Getting-Event-Id-13-on-primary-DC-and-secondary-DC.html?sfQueryTermInfo=1+13+autoenrol+event+id

Darius Ghassem

7/22/2008

Disregard the last link this is the correct one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324801

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srvmg

7/22/2008

ASKER

I believe i did do the add prep and forest prep steps, but it was a long time ago.

is there a way to check, and would it hurt to run it again?

Darius Ghassem

7/22/2008

I haven't ever not run the adprep and forestprep to see if it even allows you to add a 2003 server without doing it. I don't think it will because of Schema changes that need to happen before the 2003 server is installed. Try the other suggestions first like is the 2003 server a global catalog and the FSMO roles. Also, if the DNS IP address is setup correctly in the TCP\IP settings.